Interfacial Faraday instability driven by interspecies-interaction modulation in a phase-separated binary Bose-Einstein condensate
Abstract
We investigate interfacial Faraday instabilities in a quasi-two-dimensional, phase-separated binary Bose-Einstein condensate driven by periodic modulation of the interspecies scattering length. In the strongly immiscible regime, the interspecies interaction energy is concentrated near the internal interface, linking the modulation to interfacial tension and the capillary restoring force. We quantify the first-order tension response through its logarithmic sensitivity and account for nonlinear tension variations at finite modulation amplitudes. A sharp-interface capillary model and Floquet analysis yield discrete azimuthal-mode frequencies and primary instability tongues that shift toward higher driving frequencies with increasing mode order. Gross-Pitaevskii simulations reveal star-shaped interface patterns with threefold to eightfold rotational symmetry. The eightfold mode exhibits subharmonic oscillations and approximately exponential growth of its period-averaged amplitude over a small-deformation interval. These results provide a route to frequency-selective excitation of interfacial capillary modes through interspecies-interaction control.
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BibTeX
@misc{huang2026interfacial,
title = {{Interfacial Faraday instability driven by interspecies-interaction modulation in a phase-separated binary Bose-Einstein condensate}},
author = {Yating Huang and Yan Li},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.23314},
eprint = {2610.23314},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.23314},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Interfacial Faraday instability driven by interspecies-interaction modulation in a phase-separated binary Bose-Einstein condensate
AU - Yating Huang
AU - Yan Li
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/16
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.23314
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.23314
AB - We investigate interfacial Faraday instabilities in a quasi-two-dimensional, phase-separated binary Bose-Einstein condensate driven by periodic modulation of the interspecies scattering length. In the strongly immiscible regime, the interspecies interaction energy is concentrated near the internal interface, linking the modulation to interfacial tension and the capillary restoring force. We quantify the first-order tension response through its logarithmic sensitivity and account for nonlinear tension variations at finite modulation amplitudes. A sharp-interface capillary model and Floquet analysis yield discrete azimuthal-mode frequencies and primary instability tongues that shift toward higher driving frequencies with increasing mode order. Gross-Pitaevskii simulations reveal star-shaped interface patterns with threefold to eightfold rotational symmetry. The eightfold mode exhibits subharmonic oscillations and approximately exponential growth of its period-averaged amplitude over a small-deformation interval. These results provide a route to frequency-selective excitation of interfacial capillary modes through interspecies-interaction control.
ER -